Thank you!!

@reckless.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz as a soon to be fellow dad, what is the answer to the baby monitor situation? Which is the one to buy that won't stream video from inside your house onto the internet for the world?

The A1 is also pretty incredible for its cost. I just start printing last year, and that was my first printer. It’s a great deal!

I just upgraded my 3d printer to a Bambu P2S. Incredible. It’s wild how good it is with basically zero tweaking. Bambu has figured it out. If you are interested in getting into the 3d printing and know nothing, now is the time.

Listening to Cory Doctorow and @sarahjeong.bsky.social explain how we got to this point is cathartic. It's like competency porn. If you are a writer or creator of any kind, listen to this episode. Then subscribe to Pluralistic and buy Enshittification.

Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.

And actually astonishing when you think about it: The Trump administration's top officials are choosing to separate themselves from the public—more to the point: separate themselves from any visible protest—and live on military bases.

Gift link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted. www.wired.com/story/satell...

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

I’ve been banging this drum for a while. C2PA isn’t perfect, but it is a good first step. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. We can iterate as we solve more problems.

How to Deal With 30 to 50 Feral Hogs

This reskinned could be the plot of a sci-fi novel. Crazy.

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Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/why-8
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A post by Rebecca Johnson: “I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.” A tumblr respond from mightymur: “The final, brilliant word on passive voice. "She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive "Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

My partner and I got really into the drive-in movie scene in the Hudson Valley, but sitting in our pickup bed instead of the front seats. The problem became how to get great audio over a portable radio. Currently testing: FIIO RR11 portable radio for FM signal, then aux in to Soundcore Motion x600.

to wit -

It does seem like “are foreign movies a national security emergency” is a question more tariff coverage should be asking

Line drawing of a fish coming up onto the land. Below it, in a typeface akin to some tarot cards, are the words: THE FOOL

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
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I'm back – and I think we can win YouTube video by Garys Economics

I'm back. Here's how we fix the UK's dire economic and political situation www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMor...

Everything We Know About the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS A team of astronomers recently discovered the traveling space object, just the third of its kind to pass through our solar system.

A team of astronomers recently discovered the traveling space object, just the third of its kind to pass through our solar system. www.wired.com/story/heres-...

"The world is feeling a lil scary, but we still have long summer nights, Mississippi river mermaids, and days hiding from the heat reading a library book.

Shoutout to our amazing editor @rebeccakuss.bsky.social and agent @abwycisk.bsky.social, both mermaids in their own way. 🧜‍♀️"

"Excited to share that our first middle grade book with Simon & Schuster will be coming to bookstores, bookshelves, and public libraries near you in spring 2027. Can’t wait for you to meet Jocie, Jasper, gas station mermaid Stormi, and all the characters at the Great River Trailer Park."

Huge news for @emilyberge.bsky.social and myself. Our debut middle grade has finally been announced! Emily articulated it perfectly (as she always does)—see thread below

#booksky

The worst part about this is not so much getting the definition of the phrase wrong but the asserting the idea that humans have three feet

A Spymaster Sheikh Controls a $1.5 Trillion Fortune. He Wants to Use It to Dominate AI Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan—the UAE’s chess-obsessed, jiujitsu-loving intelligence chief—controls vast sums of sovereign wealth. America’s AI giants are scrambling for a piece of it.

As Trump makes deals across the Middle East this week, we revisit our deep dive on spymaster sheikh, Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan. He's the UAE’s chess-obsessed, jiujitsu-loving intelligence chief who controls vast sums of sovereign wealth. America’s AI giants are scrambling for a piece of it.

Harvard learned it has an authentic Magna Carta. In 1946, it paid less than $28 for it A pair of U.K. scholars discovered the mislabled document in Harvard Law School's digital archives. The university bought it for just $27.50 in 1946. It turned out to be an authentic copy dating to 1...

A pair of U.K. scholars discovered the mislabeled document in Harvard Law School's digital archives. The university bought it for just $27.50 in 1946. It turned out to be an authentic copy dating to 1300.

Copilot consumes Nadella’s life outside the office as well. He likes podcasts, but instead of listening to them, he loads transcripts into the Copilot app on his iPhone so he can chat with the voice assistant about the content of an episode in the car on his commute to Redmond. At the office, he relies on Copilot to deliver summaries of messages he receives in Outlook and Teams and toggles among at least 10 custom agents from Copilot Studio. He views them as his AI chiefs of staff, delegating meeting prep, research and other tasks to the bots. “I’m an email typist,” Nadella jokes of his job, noting that Copilot is thankfully very good at triaging his messages.

If you thought social media had scrambled America’s CEOs just wait until they’re fully cooked by AI apple.news/AJ_ht7MMyT9G...

This article has such great moments. This was my favorite.
#articleclub

Column | Delete your DNA from 23andMe right now The genetic information company declared bankruptcy on Sunday, and California’s attorney general has issued a privacy “consumer alert.”

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